[HPforGrownups] Re: Another (2) Flint(s)!-- Percy kissing Penelope in CoS

Thu Jul 26 19:12:58 UTC 2001

No: HPFGUIDX 23035

I just thought of another explanation for Percy quickly dismissing Ginny's secret.  Maybe he was kissing another girl while Penelope was petrified in the infirmary.

> ** Original Subject: RE: [HPforGrownups] Re: Another (2) Flint(s)!-- Percy kissing Penelope in CoS
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> ** Original Date: 26 Jul 2001 14:19:38 -0000

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> Thanks Amy for looking this up! (I'm at work and do not have my books <BR>
> with me!)<BR>
> <BR>
> Of course one explanation we could give for this is... uhmmmm.... <BR>
> gee, should I say this? *blush* Errr.... Maybe Percy is a bit kinkier <BR>
> than any of us suspect. Stealing into the infirmary to kiss his <BR>
> beloved who lies petrified.... Yaagh, Percy, how Gothic of you!<BR>
> <BR>
> Sheesh. Sorry, maybe I should never have watched the movie "Quills". <BR>
> I think this is in fact a Flint. He did say it was in a classroom, <BR>
> right?<BR>
> <BR>
> --Suzanne, putting on her goth boots<BR>
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> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:<BR>
> > Suzanne wrote:<BR>
> > <BR>
> > > Okay, okay, I just have to dive in with this one. Do you remember <BR>
> > > near the end of CoS when Ginny attempts to speak to Harry, but is <BR>
> > > interrupted by Percy?<BR>
> > > <BR>
> > > Later we learn that Percy believes she was going to tell them <BR>
> about <BR>
> > > what she saw in one of the classrooms (quoting from memory <BR>
> here!!)"A <BR>
> > > few days ago"-- he was apparently getting romantic with Penelope, <BR>
> > and <BR>
> > > Ginny walked in. I seem to remember thyat he was clear that this <BR>
> > > happened very recently.<BR>
> > > <BR>
> > > A few days ago??? Percy??? Wasn't Penelope PETRIFIED and in the <BR>
> > > infirmary at that time (and for quite some time)? <BR>
> > <BR>
> > Good catch--his exact words are "the other day." People do use <BR>
> that <BR>
> > expression loosely, but according to the Lexicon timeline, it's a <BR>
> full <BR>
> > three weeks between Penelope's petrification and that breakfast <BR>
> > conversation.<BR>
> > <BR>
> > Here's another Flint, or maybe it's a weakly-written red herring, <BR>
> from <BR>
> > the same incident. Percy sits down, Ginny flees, and this <BR>
> > conversation ensues:<BR>
> > <BR>
> > "Percy!" said Ron angrily. "She was just about to tell us <BR>
> something <BR>
> > important!"<BR>
> > Halfway through a gulp of tea, Percy choked.<BR>
> > "What sort of thing?" he said, coughing.<BR>
> > "I just asked her if she'd seen anything odd, and she started to <BR>
> say <BR>
> > --"<BR>
> > "Oh--that--that's nothing to do with the Chamber of Secrets," <BR>
> said <BR>
> > Percy at once.<BR>
> > <BR>
> > In most mysteries, a statement like that would set off alarm bells <BR>
> as <BR>
> > a revelation of guilty knowledge. How did Percy know that Ron was <BR>
> > asking her about the Chamber of Secrets? He was, but all he told <BR>
> > Percy was that he'd asked her if she'd seen anything odd--why did <BR>
> > Percy's mind go instantly to the Chamber if Percy himself weren't <BR>
> > concealing something about the Chamber? Hmmmmmmm?<BR>
> > <BR>
> > It would make a good clue if Percy were indeed in on the Chamber of <BR>
> > Secrets, but since he isn't, it's just a lapse on JKR's part. IMO.<BR>
> > <BR>
> > Amy Z<BR>
> > <BR>
> > --------------------------------------------------------<BR>
> > "Someone attacking you, Harry?" Seamus asked sleepily.<BR>
> > -HP and the Goblet of Fire<BR>
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